07/11/2013 South East Today

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Natalie Graham. And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top

stories. Two Sussex police officers could face misconduct charges as

part of the Jimmy Savile investigation. We're live at Sussex

Police headquarters with the details. The mother of a toddler

with a serious heart condition says losing ?200 a month in disability

living allowance will leave her having to choose between heating

and eating. Also tonight: Fury from the family

of a boy killed crossing the road at school that a footbridge still

hasn't been opened to prevent a repeat of the tragedy.

Responding to the terror of the first air raids ` the World War One

maps which helped generals draw the battle lines over Kent and Sussex.

And, sleeping with the fishes ` the underwater sculptures created by a

Kent artist. Good evening. Two Sussex Police

officers could face a misconduct investigation over the way they

handled allegations of indecent assault against Jimmy Savile.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has asked the force for

more information about the way detectives responded to a woman who

came forward in 2008 saying she was attacked by the disgraced former TV

presenter in the 1970s. Rebecca Williams reports. In 2008, a woman

told Sussex A Kent mother whose one`year`old

daughter has a serious heart condition says her child's health

is being put at risk because her benefits have been cut. Catherine

Halliday from Sheerness has lost the ?200 a month allowance she was

receiving for her daughter Tiffany. She now says she's having to choose

between heating her home or eating, but the government says it's

determined to control the rising cost of disability allowances.

Simon Jones reports. Tiffany has three holes in the

heart and faces surgery. Her mother says her condition need constant

monitoring. She spends a huge amount keeping the House won

because her daughter has a weak immune system. They are now going

to lose ?200 a month because it has been judged Tiffany does not need

more than one hour's care per day. She did not choose to be ill. She

did not choose to have what is wrong with her wrong with her. If I

could tear out my own heart and give it to her so she would have a

working heart I would do that in a second. Disability living allowance

is designed for children who need more looking after than similar

children of the same age. It varies from back ?21 to ?134 per week but

the government was looking to save ?420 million in England in changes

to benefits. Disability living allowance is there to cover the

extra burden of dealing with disability. If the government want

to do something about people struggling with their heating bills

they could scrap many policies that make life more expensive. The

Department of work and pensions told us the disability and living

allowance isn't generally paid on the condition someone has but on

their care needs and if people aren't happy with decisions reached

they can appeal. Katherine's MP is now raising the case with the

Minister. The appeal against her `` against the decision will take a

year. For a year, she and others in the same position will not get any

help or benefits. Some say that you have to make difficult choices when

it comes to the benefit system. The benefits are for her, not me. The

Department of Work and Pensions will now re`examine the case.

`` be case will be re`examined. A 55`year`old man has been arrested

on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead in Thanet this

afternoon. Kent Police were called to Broadstairs just

stairs just after I to and the woman was pronounced dead

A huge fire on a perfume factory in New Haven may have been started

deliberately according to police. The blaze at Quintessence

Fragrances started just after 1 o'clock this morning.

Investigation teams have begun the process of trying to workout Harris

started. This is what it looks like when a

perfume factory goes up in flames. Around 30 people are employed here.

Those who turned up for work today reacted with disbelief. Coming in

on the bus, I didn't know anything about it and looked on Facebook and

saw a picture of the place. Just shocked and devastated. I'm just

pleased nobody was in their and it has only damaged property. It

everyone is pretty upset. A lot of people have worked here a long time.

Some have been with the company for 15 years or more. All the hard work

people have put a `` put into the company and it has just gone up and

we don't know why. The building contains significant quantities of

flammable substances. At its height, 60 firefighters were tackling the

inferno. A large proportion of the stock contains capable and was ``

chemicals and was probably responsible for the fireball. They

have a huge job on their hands are sifting through the debris. You can

see how they heat of the fire was so intense it twisted the structure

of the building. One of the workers told me the company was a fortnight

away from moving to new premises, but is there anything left to move?

An investigation is under way. It will look to see whether it was

started deliberately. A string of new super pylons are to

be built in East Kent to connect the UK to the network fire at

Belgium. They will be taller than the existing ones and carry higher

Voltage. Campaigners are concerned about the

effect on the environment. Our environment Correspondent reports.

Connecting us up to an energy supplied ` pions transporting

electricity across the country to where we need it. As our main power

sources change, the group needs to upgrade, like in east Kent where a

controversial link is planned. It will follow the existing line of

pylons and back down into Canterbury. It will run the

northern and western edges of this area. The rate to Canterbury sub`

station was chosen over a more southerly option. The idea is to

build the new pylons following the line of the old but to the side

before the old ones are dismantled. There will be few of them though `

around two`thirds ` and there will beat `` they will be taller. They

will carry three times more faults of electricity. The demolition of

rich brat power station was symbolic. Its closure was followed

by two others. The burning of Porte ``: Doyle in the South East is

making an exit. `` Carl and oil. The upgrade is needed for

additional sources from abroad. A link is planned with Belgium so we

can better trade a power with the Continent. Some are concerned that

environmental damage will ensue. Of course there will be disruption and

the impact of the pylons being built, but we believe it is ``

there is a great deal more that could be done to put this

underground. Yvette joins us now. Will this help

secured are future energy needs? It is very much part of a long`term

plan. Over the next 10 years, a quarter of our power stations will

close. We have already lost three and another will close soon.

Renewables are on the increase but the National Grid says it can be

intermittent. When the wind doesn't blow, we may need to import our

energy. We have links with the south`east and the Netherlands and

France. Belgium is next. Trading in power is on the increase.

To Sussex Police officers could face a misconduct operation ` my

investigation over the way they handled allegations of indecent

assault by Jimmy Savile. The IPCC is asking for more information

about the way detectives dealt with that case.

Also: Inaccessible art ` we meet the sculptor whose latest work is

500 metres below water. Things are looking wintry here.

Find out later. It's an unusual combination ` two

high flying businesswomen in Kent and homeless war veterans who have

hit rock bottom. But a new venture, Futures for Heroes, set up only a

few weeks ago, has already helped a dozen war veterans find somewhere

to live and start turning their lives around, providing a very

individual military service. Our news correspondent, Mark Norman,

has tonight's Special Report. A workshop on an industrial estate

in Margate but these men are former military personnel and many have

powerful stories to tell. He died while I was trying to save him.

Stephen served in Afghanistan and on his last tour lost three good

friends. Unfortunately, he was killed and I was lucky enough to

get away from that. It's still haunts me now and sometimes I feel

like it is my fault and I didn't do enough. I do suffer from post

traumatic stress disorder but, being here, I can think of ways to

overcome that. Like other soldiers here who have seen action, he

suffers from post`traumatic stress disorder. The anxiety and

depression can make the transition to civilian life difficult. He

found himself living in a car in a supermarket car`park, but with ``

within hours of being put in touch with the charity, he found himself

living here. For one night, if someone get stuck we can put them

on the couch until we can be house them. We said, we can probably give

you some housing which we did that weekend. Since then, it has

snowballed. Everything is fitting into place and they have so much to

offer for ex service personnel. The two business women who started this

project, opened it just a few weeks ago. It is actually a social

enterprise and not a charity. Both of us looked at each other and said,

all the things we have done for other disadvantaged groups, why

don't we apply the things we have learnt to this specific group that

actually really do need help at this point in time? The two

founders now hope to roll out this model across the country.

In 1917, while trench warfare raged on the Western Front, German

generals planned bombing raids on the Home Front, sending aircraft

over the South East of England to target civilians.

Today, a unique collection of maps has been published by a Sussex

author Peter Chasseaud shedding new light on how the Great War was

fought. Claudia Sermbezis has been to Lewes to meet him.

When the Germans started their strategic bombing campaign in 1917,

the idea was to reach much further in behind the Yemeni lines and put

civilians onto the front lines `` the enemy lines. This wrote shows `

` these rich shows a flight path over our region. It caused

tremendous outcry in the prayers and that was why they'd launched

these rates. These rates brought the ball home. Set in airships had

been used at the beginning of the conflict and one of six reading

London crashed near Margate. Peter explored the archives at the

Imperial War Museum for He says the Great War was a war of

maps. The war changed usually from beginning to end and maps were a

great part of that allowing weapons to be used with increasing effect.

Pilots risked their lives taking photographs to be turned into maps.

Of course, this took no account of ground conditions. During one great

battle, the ground conditions were appalling ` churned up by artillery

fire and there had been heavy rain. The infantry found it heavy going

to go across country. It was very body and there were German machine

guns from the pillboxes playing across them and mowing them down. P

does book features 150 Matt's telling the story on land, in the

air and on the sea. He's a prolific sculptor, but it's

highly unlikely that you'll ever get to see his latest artworks on

display. Jason deCairnes Taylor has created

more than 500 underwater sculptures off the coast of Mexico. He's just

arrived home in Canterbury after completing the project, but back in

South America his work's already barely recognisable, having been

taken over by coral, sea urchins and other marine life. Fiona Irving

reports. Figures of concrete that come to

life under water. This is Jason deCairnes Taylor's latest

exhibition. 510 sculptures all on Mexico's sea bed. You are viewing

something from a completely different angle. You are in a

three`dimensional world way you can float around it and you are

completely buoyant. Although they are static sculptures, they are

changing all the tide `` all the time. Every visit I go, each visit

is always new. It has taken four years to create all the sculptures.

The works were commissioned by the local government to try to keep

divers from damaging the coral reefs. The figures are also

themselves after the regeneration of sea life. When there is a strong

storm, it rips the coral off the reef so I took some of these pieces

that had been ripped off the reef and were dying and replanted them

on to these wings of this angel. From Aldi to lobster, the

sculptures are now home to thousands of creatures `` from Aldi.

I always feel really guilty because I go down and wake them up with my

dive like. `` dive lights. Art not just a mirror to nature but part of

it. Wow! We all want to go scuba`diving

in Mexico now. We can't, but we can go ice`skating in Bryson ``

Brighton. There's a Christmassy feel to the famous Brighton

Pavilion tonight with the unveiling of the city's winter ice rink.

Professional skaters are performing there tonight before it opens to

the public and Rachel Mackley's there for us. Are you feeling

festive, Rachel? Yes but I won't do any skating. We haven't seen a

flake of snow but people are already on the ice rink. Tonight is

the opening night. It will be open from Saturday for two months. What

makes it special? First, it is in front of that building which it is

an extraordinary backdrop. It is also about having an experience

with family and friends and it is what you would hope Christmas is

all about. We have tiny ones and older people to. It seems to be for

everyone. Several ice`skaters have been here and one of them here is

nattily. How did it feel? Absolutely Fabulous. I couldn't

have asked for a better setting. When you come back to Brighton

again question map yes we are performing in Robin Cousins Ice.

I was very impressed with all of that. If you are planning on coming

on Saturday, will you be having wintry weather? This evening it

will stay dry. One or two showers around as we hit through the night.

Earlier was quite a different story but the rain cleared eastwards. But

the first part of the afternoon it was a dry a story. Temperatures

feeling rather Carleton. Westerly breezes will ease off throughout

the day that `` feeling rather culled. More in the way of clearer

skies and that is the story tonight. Temperatures will be tumbling.

Along the coast, holding up slightly. Towards dawn, more cloud

around and sharp showers. Showers during the morning and by the

afternoon a band of heavy and persistent rain with the wind

picking up as well. Really heavy rain around a must `` rush`hour say

take a bit of extra time. The first part of the evening will be wet

also and around 9 o'clock the rain should have cleared. One or two

showers around which could be hefty but clearer skies also.

Temperatures dropping again but holding up on the coast. Showers to

start the weekend. A ridge of high pressure is around so Sunday looks

more `` dry and brighter. A very cold night as we go it over into

Sunday. Dry and bright for Sunday but colt. Rein back on Monday.

Enjoy your evening. Before we go... Before we go, the

BBC's Children in Need 2013 appeal takes place on Friday of next week

and we've got something rather special planned.

Joined us on Friday November 15th at the Bluebell Railway for this is

Children In Need when you could get the chance to write the Pudsey

Express. `` ride the Pudsey Express. If you'd like to join us, email us

at: Put "Children in Need" as the subject. Free Tickets for the

evening event will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

For those fundraisers who've excelled, there's the chance of

getting on the Pudsey Express. So, let us know what you're planning

and if you're selected, we'll be in touch.

But we will leave you with the Brighton